Cloud based bibliographic databases

Cloud or Online - Shared Bibliographic DatabasesAs many of you will know I have been experimenting with all kinds of social media and knowledge sharing technologies. Two stand out as being really useful in conservation. Mendeley and Zotero. Each reflects differing personal research styles. I have set up two shared bibliographic Databases for members of the Metals conservation community to use;https://www.zotero.org/groups/metals_wo ... roup/itemsandhttp://www.mendeley.com/groups/1403863/ ... servation/Each uses a different software and philosophy which enables you to share citations and documents.Zotero is open source and works within a browser, Mendeley is open source but commercial and is more of a “social” type network.I invite you to have a look at both – they can be set up in parallel and share information. Mendeley is better for pdf organization, zotero is best as a primary research tool. Both will format references in any required style in Word, Openoffice and Libraoffice.I invite you to have a look at both. I have placed some references scoured from AATA and other databases in the system so you have something to look at./dlh.